July 8, 2013
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It doesn’t get much scarier than this. Bluebox Security claimed to have discovered a vulnerability in Android’s security model that could allow attackers to convert 99 percent of all applications into Trojan malware. Google has told ZDNet that the hole has been patched and that it has been released to original equipment manufacturers (OEM)s.
Google releases fix to OEMs for Blue Security Android security hole. More >
July 8, 2013
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SUSE Studio is a great online program. It enables pretty much anyone create their own customized Linux distribution without being a Linux kernel engineer. But after you had built it, you were on your own… until now. Starting July 8th, SUSE will support your roll-your-own Linux if it’s based on SUSE Linux.
SUSE to support SUSE Studio customized Linux distros. More >
July 8, 2013
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I took my time kicking the tires of the public preview build of Windows 8.1. I thought that after the Windows 8 fiasco surely Microsoft would get it right the second time around but I wanted to make sure.
It didn’t.
July 8, 2013
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After Citrix bought Xen in 2007, the core of this popular open-source hypervisor remained open source, but some of the rest became proprietary software. Now Citrix has decided to take all of its virtual machine manager and cloud XenServer software back to its open-source roots.
Citrix goes all in for open-source XenServer cloud. More >
July 3, 2013
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We knew this day was coming. It was clear years ago that Yahoo was going to close down its Alta Vista search engine. On July 8, Yahoo will shut this once mighty search engine’s doors for good. Alta Vista expired with a single line for its obituary.
July 2, 2013
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The famous quantum reality thought experiment Schrödinger’s Cat, may or may not exist, but the latest version of Red Hat’s community Linux Fedora 19 nick-named Schrödinger’s Cat is alive, well, and ready to be downloaded.